Rokita Stands With Trump Administration on Gender Transition 

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced bold federal actions to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation done in the name of “gender transition.” Attorney General Todd Rokita was one of two state attorneys general attending last week’s announcement in the nation’s capital. 

“We must protect our kids and put an end to these irreversible and harmful experimental procedures that often lead to lifelong regret,” Rokita said afterward. “We are blessed to have an administration in the White House fully committed to the same kind of commonsense values that prevail among everyday Hoosiers in Indiana.”  Kennedy signed a declaration stating that sex-rejecting treatments on children do not meet professionally recognized standards of health care.   

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announced that his agency would release a notice of proposed rulemaking to prohibit hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children under age 18 as a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Under another proposed CMS rule, Medicaid would no longer fund sex-rejecting procedures for minors. These actions, among others, came a day after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which would criminalize the act of performing sex-rejecting on minors.